Dimitris Tiliakos and Vassilis Varvaresos

Dimitris Tiliakos and

Vassilis Varvaresos

Baritone Dimitris Tiliakos was born in Rhodes. After studying the viola he began his vocal training at the Athenaeum conservatory in Athens. He won the Maria Callas Scholarship and this allowed him to continue his studies in Opera and Lied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München where he was awarded with the Meisterklassendiplom degree for outstanding artistic performance. Shortly thereafter he made his debut at the Prinz­ regententheater in Munich in the role of Conte Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and was awarded the W.D. Fassbaender Prize for young baritones.

He took the title role in a recording Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth live from the Paris Opera and Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell for Alpha records. He also recorded the title role in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with MusicAeterna under the baton of Teodor Currentzis for Sony Classical.

Greek pianist Vassilis Varvaresos (1983) was in 1998 the youngest ever winner of Young Concert Artists New York. This achievement has been followed by various international prizes, his most recent being 3rd prize at the Enescu competition in Bucharest in September 2014. He has performed in many major venues in the USA such as the Morgan Library, the Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln center, and The Kennedy Center in Washington.

In March 2012 after his rst solo recital in Carnegie Hall he was invited by President Obama to perform at the White House. This ‘most promising young Greek artist’ also plays as soloist with orchestras as well as in chamber music recitals and recording projects. In the 15/16 season he made his debut at the Musikverein in Vienna, Tonhalle Zürich, Salle Gaveau Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Berliner Philharmonie.